Presales - Team Member

Job Summary

• Solution Design: Develop and design robust infrastructure solutions that align with business goals and requirements.
• To collaborate with the key stakeholders across the Hybrid Cloud practice and Business Development Executives within HCL Technologies to effectively lead the aligned pre-sales engagements to success
• Own and drive the RFP process, including due diligence, solution presentation, pricing creation, internal stakeholder discussions, SoW support, and proposal submission. 
• Candidate should be able to participate in deep technical discussions with customers with good presentation/articulation skills
• Demonstrate HCL Datacenter and Cloud capabilities 
• Demonstrate architectural best practices across technologies to solve Client problems, articulate views/roadmaps for future infrastructure operations
• Architecture Strategy: Define and implement infrastructure architecture strategies, standards, and best practices.
• Project Management: Lead infrastructure projects from inception to completion, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to budget.
• Technical Leadership: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior architects and engineering teams.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with business stakeholders to understand their requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Risk Management: Identify potential risks within the infrastructure and develop mitigation strategies.
• Innovation: Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies to ensure our infrastructure remains cutting-edge.
• Documentation: Create detailed documentation for infrastructure designs, configurations, and processes.
• RFP and RFI Responses: Prepare and respond to Requests for Proposals (RFP) and Requests for Information (RFI) by providing comprehensive infrastructure solutions and technical details.

Key Responsibilities

• Strong knowledge in Datacenter technologies: Compute, virtualization, storage, backup, archive, software-defined DC, hyper-converged solutions (Key platforms include Nutanix, Cisco, DELL, VMware, NetApp Rubrik, Cohesity, Pure, etc.)
• Strong knowledge in Cloud technologies: Cloud assessment, IaaS, PaaS transformation, Cloud Migration, Cloud Automation (Key Platforms include AWS, VMware on AWS, Azure, AVS, GCP, Oracle Cloud, etc.)
• Strong knowledge on Container technologies: AKS, EKS, GKE, Red hat OpenShift.
• Good understanding of Automation solutions like vCloud, vRealize, Terraform, Ansible.
• Good understanding of AI solution and technologies: VMware private AI, Nutanix AI, OpenShift AI, Nvidia, Opensource Llama etc.
• Good understanding on tools landscape such as ServiceNow, Datadog, SolarWinds, Splunk, Grafana, PowerBI etc
• Experience in designing solutions around DC Infrastructure Migration and Transformation
• Good knowledge of managed services concepts like IT Service Management, Agile practices, AIOps, Site Reliability Engineer (SREs), etc. 
• Experience in providing consulting in cloud transformation journey for customers

Skill Requirements

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Other Requirements

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